Outstanding Service Award — Ana Luhrs

Outstanding Service Award — Ana Luhrs

 

April 21, 2024

Ms. Ana Luhrs
Easton, PA  18042

Dear Ana,

On behalf of the Board of Directors of Judith’s Reading Room please accept our greatest appreciation for your constant collaboration with our organization to improve the scholarship that underlines our library formations around the world.  In specific, we recognize you for researching the topic of Reluctant Readers and Graphic Novels for our 107th library to be donated August 10, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Please accept our humble thank you along with this Certificate acknowledging you as an Outstanding Service Award recipient.

Warmest regards,

Cathy L. Leiber, Co-Founder

 

 

Judith’s Reading Room Announces 107th Library

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CONTACT: Cathy Leiber
www.JudithsReadingRoom.org

Judith’s Reading Room announces its 107th Library
Graphic Novels Will Enrich Lives of “Care-Experienced” Youth in Scotland

April 2, 2024 — Judith’s Reading Room announced today that it will dedicate its 107th library in its 24th country in collaboration with Heavy Sound, Cockenzie, East Lothian, in the eastern central Lowlands of Scotland on August 10, 2024.

Judith’s Reading Room, a 501 (c) 3 literacy organization founded in 2010 in the memory of Judith F. Krug, a distinguished librarian and cousin to the founders, reached out to The Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland, to help identify a school or organization that would benefit from a library.  It’s CEO, Marc Lambert, informed that “ If you are able to support Heavy Sound with books, you’ll be sure to be directing your charitable activities to those children who really need it most.”

Heavy Sound serves the most vulnerable, at risk and hardest to reach young people in Scotland, most of whom have poor/no literacy.  The nonprofit organization recognizes the barriers this causes throughout their lives, and therefore aims to inspire and support them to become readers and writers.  “We are absolutely thrilled that Judith’s Reading Room is supporting Heavy Sound by providing books that will enrich the lives of the people we support, said Linda Bendle, CEO Heavy Sound.

Working with The Scottish Book Trust and Heavy Sound, Judith’s Reading Room decided to focus on graphic novels — a genre shown in academic research* to be a positive literacy ‘stepping stone’ to help reluctant readers in their discovery of the joy of reading.  According to the American Library Association, to get teenage reluctant readers reading, ‘we need to find the elusive reading material that provides interest.’

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*”Teenage Reluctant Readers,” Young Adult Library Services, American Library Association, Summer 2005.  Courtesy Ana Luhrs, Librarian, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

A comprehensive list of graphic novels, provided by The Scottish Book Trust, will guide  Judith’s Reading Room in its purchases to create the graphic novel library at Heavy Sound, serving youth ages 12-15.

Judith’s Reading Room  

The mission of Judith’s Reading Room is to ‘enrich lives and societies by proactively encouraging freedom through literacy.’  It has fulfilled that mission by establishing 106 libraries (& counting!) in 23 countries with over 133,000 books donated worth $1.4 million.  Its signature event, ‘The Freedom Through Literacy Award,’ annually recognizes and honors champions of literacy from all disciplines — teachers, authors, educators, researchers, nonprofit literacy organizations — from around the world.  To date, over $58,000 has been awarded to 71 champions of literacy from 18 countries.

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Emmaus High School Bookfair

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CONTACT: Cathy Leiber
www.JudithsReadingRoom.org

Emmaus High School Bookfair 3/9/2024

Today, you will be doing an enormous service for teens 12-15 years of age in Edinburgh, Scotland.  These boys & girls are some of the most vulnerable in Scottish society who come from very tough backgrounds, often care backgrounds, and who have missed out on a lot of formal schooling.

Today’s Bookfair will benefit Judith’s Reading Room.

Judith’s Reading Room, a local Pennsylvania non profit literacy organization, established in 2010, has as its mission “to enrich lives and societies by proactively encouraging freedom through literacy.”  To date, the organization has dedicated 106 libraries in 23 countries with over 133,000 donated books.

Today, you will help us establish our 107th library in our 24th country dedicated to boys & girls ages 12-15 in collaboration with the non profit HeavySound.org in Edinburgh, Scotland.  This is a great organization — it is not a ‘formal’ school, but it does offer these kids an outstanding educational and activity-based program.

The BEST BOOKS for teens who read way below grade level, are GRAPHIC NOVELS!  Help us obtain GRAPHIC NOVELS!

Judith’s Reading Room will dedicate its 107th library with Heavy Sound in Edinburgh, Scotland the week of August 12, 2024.  Your hard work to encourage Barnes & Noble patrons to be generous will result in a spectacular library.

 

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